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The final moments of a hero father-of-two who gave up his own life to save his wife in the Westminster terror attack were shown to his grieving family at the beginning of the inquest into victim’s deaths.

American tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, has been hailed a hero after it emerged he died trying to save his wife Melissa by pushing her out of the way as Khalid Masood came racing towards them.

In ’82 seconds of terrible drama’ the Westminster terrorist mowed down victims like ‘human bowling pins’ the inquest heard yesterday.

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He would have felt and heard ‘every bang and thud’ as he deliberately targeted and killed four people on Westminster Bridge, before stabbing PC Keith Palmer to death at the gates of Parliament.

Melissa, the wife of music lover Mr Cochran, was too upset to pay tribute to him in person, so her sister Angela Stoll read a statement on her behalf on what would have been the day after his 56th birthday.